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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:58:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jason Sabella <jsabella@ic.sunysb.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD installation
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330155741.24859w-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35202BA7.CDF90E87@ic.sunysb.edu>

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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Jason Sabella wrote:

> I am having trouble installing FreeBSD 2.2.1 from the Walnut Creek
> CD-ROM.  I have a Gateway 2000 686-266 with a 6.4 GIG hard drive,
> partitioned into 3 equal pieces of about size 2.1 GIG.  Windows 95 is
> installed on Drive C.  I am using Drive C and drive D for Windows
> stuff.  I want to install FreeBSD onto my E drive, which is currently
> empty.


Make sure that drive E doesn't actually exist -- it must be completely
clean space, not part of any other partition.  At that point hit 'C' in
the fdisk editor and accept the default size -- it'll take up the
remaining space.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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